A PALE PINK AND GREEN TOURMALINE 'BADGERS' PENDANT, QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

A PALE PINK AND GREEN TOURMALINE 'BADGERS' PENDANT

QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

清十八 / 十九世紀 碧璽雕雙歡珮

charmingly carved in openwork as a pair of badgers arranged head to tail, the natural coloring of the stone cleverly utilized with one badger a pale pink and the other a yellow-green, surmounted by a bat with wings spread

Length 2 in., 5.2 cm